Decoy-duck.



PATENTED FEB. 14,1905.

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DEGOY DUCK.

APPLIUATION FILED` JULY 1a. 1904.v

UNITED' STATES Patented February 14, 1905.

PATENT @Frictia JOHN H. RIMPLER AND SAMUEL C. SELF, OF GOSHEN, INDIANA.

DEooYv-DUCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 782,625, dated February 14, 1905.

` Application led July 18, 1904. Serial No 217,059.

To @ZZ whom it may concern.:

Be it known that we, JOHN H. RIMPLER and SAMUELC. SELF, citizens of the United States, residing at Goshen, in the county of Elkhart and State of Indiana, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Decoy Ducks, of which the following is a specification.

'Ihis invention relates to decoy-ducks and similar devices used by Sportsmen to lure ducks and other water-fowl into a decoy. The manner of using a decoy-duck is so well known as to need no explanation here.

It is the purpose of the present invention to improve the structural characteristics of decoy-d ucks and cognate articles of manufacture, the process orart of doing which is purposely not herein claimed, since it forms the subject of a separate application for a patent filed in the Patent Ofce December 22, 1904, Serial No. 237,995.

Like symbols of reference designate like parts or features, as the case may be.

Of the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the decoy-duck complete. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional View of the forward half of the same. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, but showing the rear half of the same. Fig. 4 is a side View ofV a mold for making one half of the decoy-duck.

In the drawings, 1 designates a mold for the formation of one half of a decoy-duck, there being another mold of like character for making the other half, which mold it is not deemed necessary to show in order to give a clear understanding of the invention. The mold 1 may be made of plaster-of-parisor other suitable substances and is so formed as that anything molded therein will have the form of half of` a duck divided longitudinally. We rst thoroughly oil the inside surface of the mold in order that the paper from which the article is made will not stick thereto. We commence by laying into the mold sheets of stout paper or paper-pulp thoroughly pasted together. The thickness of the layers may be as great as is needed, and it may be thicker at one point than another, if desired. These layers` of paper, pasted together andwhich are designated by the symbol 2, lill or cover one half of the -mold to completeness, and when the two side.

lhalves-are formed they are put in an oven and dried, which makes them hard and tough to a degree that renders them almost bullet-proof. The VneXt step is to parafn both parts thoroughly, or as thoroughly as is necessary,y and subsequently dry them both outside and in- When this vis done, the two halves are sewed together with a strong thread or cord 3, the weight 4 being put in before the parts are finally closed. The weight t consists of a trough-shaped piece'of lead or other similar metal in which is laid a strip of wood 5 in order to the better nail or fasten the weightV to the bottom of the decoy, as is shown in Figs. 2 and 3. After being sewed together the lines of union are covered by pasting paper thereover to as great a thickness as is desired, when it is thoroughly dried again. Instead of sewing the halves together at this time they may be completed as far as possible and then painted and sewed together; otherwise the sewing together of thehalves maybe effected and the painting done afterward, when the eyes 5 of glass will be put in and a screw-eye 6(see Fig. 3) will be turned in the bottom, to which'a cord 7 will be tied in order that the user may controlit when in thewater, or instead a cord 7 with a weight at the free end thereof, may be 'attached to the screw-eye in order that the decoy may beheld to surely float upright and be supported steadier than would otherwise be the casein the Water.

A decoy-duck thus formed can be thrown to any reasonable distance without danger of breaking or injuring it, and it will stand rough usage without material injury, as would not be the case with any similar article now known to us.

It should have been stated that we prefer, finally, to treat the article with a waterproof Varnish-such, for instance, as spar-varnish and parain#so that should it become frozen in ice or remain in the water for a very long time it will not be injured thereby.

Itis to be understood that Wev do not confine our invention to decoy-ducks, since the construction that might Change the form of-l 3. Adecoy-duck ofhollow structure having parts without departing from the nature or spirit of this invention. For instance, it would not be a deviation from the invention to nail, rivet, or otherwise suitably secure the two halves together instead pf uniting them by sewing.

lVe claim- 1. A decoy-duck composed of two halves of molded paper, a strong oord or thread uniting the two halves into one, molded paper covering the lines of unition, and a coating of waterproof varnish covering the whole.

2. A decoy-duck composed of two halves of molded paper, a strong cord or thread unit-- ing the two halves into one, molded paper covering the lines of unition, a coating of waterproof varnish covering the whole, and a weight located within and on the bottom of the decoy. l

a weight of troughllike form centrally and longitudinally arranged Within the structure. and a strip of wood arranged within said trough-shaped Weight.

4. A decoy-duck of hollow structure having a weight of trough-like form centrally and longitudinally arranged within the structure, and a strip of Wood arranged within said trough-shaped weight, and a screw-eye cord, and weight attached to said strip of Wood.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of tWo subscribing witnesses.

JOHN H. RIMPLER. SAMUEL C. SELF.

nWitnesses:

A. S. ZooK, OSCAR JAY. 

